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Malnourished boy being examined in southern Madagascar

A crisis ‘lost in the ocean’

21 June 2016

Southern Madagascar is suffering its worst drought in years and its people are poor and exhausted. Climate change means only worse is to come.

Feature

Polio hopes and Zika fears in the vaccine race
6 April 2016
“Ebola’s scary because we know what it can do. Zika’s scary because we don’t know yet what it can do."
Analysis

Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers
28 January 2016
Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which 29...

Southern Africa's food crisis - from bad to worse
4 December 2015 Feature
Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Analysis
Disaster-prone Madagascar battles flooding and drought
5 March 2015 Analysis

Analysis

3 tips for WHO's new director for Africa
24 February 2015
The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December. This rise...
Analysis

Does celebrity advocacy actually work?
13 February 2015
This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker appealed for peace in South Sudan alongside UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos; Angelina...
News

Southern Africa floods slideshow
20 January 2015
The number of people affected by severe flooding in southern Africa continues to rise, and more rain is predicted. Malawi has reported 50 deaths and...
Feature

Nice and dirty – the importance of soil
16 January 2015
Be it laterite, loam, peat or clay, soil is life. It's the foundation of food security, and so the UN has declared 2015 as the...
Feature

PRESS RELEASE: IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN
20 November 2014
A NEW START FOR CRISIS REPORTING IRIN humanitarian news service to spin off from the UN. Jynwel Foundation invests $25 million to create global non-profit...
Analysis

An ambitious plan to end statelessness
7 November 2014
It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to their...

How to boost food production in Africa
15 September 2014 Feature
New thinking needed on food aid for refugees in Africa
7 July 2014 Analysis
Madagascar back in the US trade fold
27 June 2014 News
Genome breakthrough could help fight against sleeping sickness
28 May 2014 News
Melding science and tradition to tackle climate change
23 May 2014 Analysis
Small steps towards forest conservation in Madagascar
24 April 2014 News

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